LANCHAVA AND OTHERS v. GEORGIA

THIRD SECTIONDECISIONApplication no. 25678/09Omar LANCHAVA and Othersagainst GeorgiaThe European Court of Human Rights (Third Section), sitting on 7 February 2012 as a Chamber composed of: Josep Casadevall, President, Corneliu Bîrsan, Egbert Myjer, Ján Šikuta, Ineta Ziemele, Nona Tsotsoria, Kristina Pardalos, judges,and Marialena Tsirli, Deputy Section Registrar,Having regard to the above application lodged on 24 March 2009,Having deliberated, decides as follows:THE FACTS1.  The applicants[1] are Georgian nationals. They were represented before the Court by Mr Simon Papuashvili, a lawyer practising in Tbilisi.A.  The circumstances of the case2.  The facts of the case, as submitted by the applicants, may be summarised as follows.1. Background3.  In 1991-92, the applicants, as members of a State-supported housing construction cooperative, paid various amounts of money in Soviet roubles, th …